Subject: Swainsons thrush/ Ocean Shores
Date: Apr 20 21:37:56 1997
From: "S. Downes" - sdownes at u.washington.edu


Tweets,
This report is a bit belated but I have not checked my email all weekend,
been too busy birding for spring migrants. A particular suprise to me was
a singing swainsons thrush at the battle creek golf course, friday evening
about 4:30. This golf course is in Marysville, along Marine drive, west of
the tulalip casino. The course is located on Meridian ave.

Yesterday Jim Flynn and I headed for Ocean Shores to scout for a fieldtrip
next weekend and had the following highlights:
Pt. Brown jetty:
40 Surfbirds
20 Black Turnstones
1 Wandering Tattler
1 Juv. Black-legged Kittiwake

Damon Point and Bills spit
2 Whimbrel
~12 Semipalmated Plover
~50 Short-billed Dowitcher
~2000 Western Sandpipers
~200 Dunlin
~100 Caspian Terns
~125 Marbled Godwits

And to truly keep on the golf course theme the 5 and 6 hole greens at
Ocean Shores golf courses were loaded with birdies (sorry couldn't resist)
~2500 shorebirds with dunlin and Western SAndpipers comprising the
majority and a few SB dowitchers filling in.
At Ocean city st. park we had a nice movement of warblers in the rain,
with
1 Black-throated Gray
~12 Yellow-rumped
~8 Orange-crowned
All in all we had 74 species on a very rain drenched soggy day.

AS A LAST NOTE THE FIELDTRIP MENTIONED IS THE WOS FIELDTRIP, WHICH IS TO
BE HELD ON SATURDAY APRIL 26. THE FIELDTRIP WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY PORTION
OF THE SHOREBIRD FESTIVAL CONTRARY TO THE STATEMENT IN WOS NEWSLETTER.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE CONTACT JIM FLYNN AND NOT ME at (206)
772-5568 or email him at bf519 at scn.org.

Scott Downes
sdownes at u.washington.edu
Seattle WA